Re: apt problems and why?
Daniel@eng.uct.ac.za wrote:
>I get the following error message
>
>home:/home/daniel# apt-get -f install
>Reading Package Lists... Done
>Building Dependency Tree... Done
>Correcting dependencies... failed.
>Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
> libesd0: Depends: esound-common but it is not installed
>E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused
>by held packages.
>E: Unable to correct dependencies
>
>I cannot solve this problem and also I cannot install any package. Any
>help? This has to be looked at as one of Debian's biggest weakness. We
>boast about Debian easy upgradability but it does sometimes show Msoft
>weaknesses.
The apt and esound maintainers do listen to bug reports now and again,
but I'm not sure if they read debian-user ...
http://bugs.debian.org/
Do you have any held packages, like the message says? 'dpkg
--get-selections | grep hold' will tell you.
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Colin Watson [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]
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